Orthodox and alternative medicine : politics, professionalization, and health care / Mike Saks.

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Saks, Mike

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (194 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781446265369
1446265366
9780826458179
0826458173
9780826458186
0826458181
1412901537
9781412901536

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Orthodox and alternative medicine.DDC classification:

362.1/0941 21

LOC classification:

R487 .S354 2003eb

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Health Care in the Pre-Industrial Era; Chapter 2 -- The Rise of the Medical Profession and Orthodox Biomedicine; Chapter 3 -- The Marginalization of Alternative Medicine; Chapter 4 -- The Development of a Medical Counter-Culture; Chapter 5 -- Health Policy, Professionalization and the State; Conclusion; References; Index

Summary: `There's no book like it. It's Saks' subject and he's good' - Roy Porter This fascinating book explores the changing relationship between orthodox and alternative medicine in Britain and the United States from the sixteenth century to the present day. Mike Saks sees the development of orthodox and alternative medicine as two sides of the same coin and his analysis centers on the role of professionalization in health care. In the sixteenth century, the line between orthodox and alternative medicine was blurred. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-183) and index.

`There's no book like it. It's Saks' subject and he's good' - Roy Porter This fascinating book explores the changing relationship between orthodox and alternative medicine in Britain and the United States from the sixteenth century to the present day. Mike Saks sees the development of orthodox and alternative medicine as two sides of the same coin and his analysis centers on the role of professionalization in health care. In the sixteenth century, the line between orthodox and alternative medicine was blurred. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,

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